Dead End (2003)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308152/
Reeker (2005)
://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393635/
Any more?
Also "I Know What You Did Last Summer" & sequel, "Urban Legend" & sequels, "The 6th Sense" and " The Others" are movies that shared some elements straight from "Campfire Tales" even if each one of them are more famous (some already cult movies) & "Campfire Tales" nobody has seen this... very unfair, isn't it?
Or maybe they and this movie actually ripped off
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Copy and paste, I don't know how to do links on here, but also it is a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie I am talking about.
The idea of a person or group of people experiencing strange events and eventually discovering that they're actually dead (usually because of a car crash) has been used in numerous films, TV shows, comic books and short stories for several decades.
The earliest example that I'm aware of is the short story An Occurance at Owl Bridge Creek. I believe the first movie to use the idea was Outward Bound (1930).
Apart from Reeker, Dead End and Campfire Tales, other recent films with the exact same twist include Jacob's Ladder, The Locals, Room 6, Stay, Soul Survivors and Rest Stop.
Reeker and Dead End may be unoriginal, but it's illogical and unfair to call them rip offs. If they are, then so are all the other movies I've mentioned above - including Campfire Tales.
There are no original ideas anymore. Every possible kind of story has already been told. The best we can hope for is that film-makers keep finding entertaining and intriguing ways of presenting or re-interpreting variations of existing concepts.
http://hexfan.proboards.com/
Fair Enough, I probably should have used influenced by.
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